Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

1. Malay Saha: Deciphering Drought Tolerance in Tall Fescue [Lolium arundinaceum (Schreb.) Darbysh.] 2. Gintaras Brazauskas: Evaluation of perennial ryegrass association mapping population for freezing tolerance traits 3. Margaret Worthington: Tools for Accelerating Genetic Gain in Brachiagrass at CIAT 4. Patricio Munoz: A new red clover 2,4-D-resistant cultivar to improve broadleaf weed control and elucidate the molecular mechanism of resistance 5. Mallikarjuna Rao Kovi: Interactions of vernalization and cold hardening in Lolium perenne revealed by RNA-sequencing 6. Iman Rohollahi: Variation in genome size, germination and establishment of Iranian wild Festuca arundinacea populations under dry soil conditions 7. Hongwen Gao: A Galega orientalis aquaporin protein, is negative to drought stress tolerance 8. Yan-Min Wu: Genome-wide analysis of AP2/ERF family genes in Lotus corniculatus and functional characterization of LcERF054 and LcERF080 in Arabidopsis 9. Bala Ani Akpinar: Elucidating transcripts responsive to Zn-deficiency in Agrostis species 10. Toshihiko Yamada: Candidate gene approach in Miscanthus spp. for biorefinery 11. Pieter Badenhorst: Field Evaluation of Transgenic Perennial Ryegrass (L. perenne L.) with Altered Fructan Metabolism 12. Kevin Smith: Economics - the forgotten '-omics': estimating the value of molecular breeding of pastures for dairy production 13. Noel Cogan: Genome and transcriptome analysis in perennial ryegrass 14. John Forster: Methods for association genetics analysis in ryegrasses 15. Chloe Manzanares: The genetic control of self-incompatibility in grasses revisited - are there really just two loci? 16. Noel Cogan: Gene discovery and functional genomics of self-incompatibility in perennial ryegrass 17. Susana Milla-Lewis: SSR development and linkage mapping in St. Augustine grass 18. Parwinder Kaur: A second generation genetic map for subterranean clover 19. Tim Sawbridge: Pan-genome analysis of ryegrass endophytes 20. John Forster: Systems biology of fescue endophytes 21. German Spangenberg: Discovery and characterisation of Brachiaria endophytes 22. Isabel Roldan-Ruiz: Genetic diversity in candidate genes for developmental traits and cell wall characteristics in perennial ryegrass 23. Gongshe Liu: Advances in forage and turf biotechnology in China 24. Stepan Stoces: A new SNP platform for gene expression analysis of xFestulolium hybrids 25. Luke Pembleton: Advanced phenomics tools for herbage quality assessment in ryegrass breeding 26. Baldomero Alarcon-Zuniga: Estimation of genetic components in half-sib family populations of alfalfa 27. Junping Wang: SNP-based cultivar identification and discrimination in ryegrasses 28. Toshihiko Yamada: Use of genetic diversity on SSR markers to increase forage yield in timothy (Phleum pratense L.) 29. Sachiko Isobe: Pollen genome sequencing in red clover and its application 30. Hans Daetwyler: Diversity of inbreeding and outbreeding species: implications for genomic selection 31. Zibei Lin: Comparing phenotypic and genomic selection in a simulated perennial ryegrass breeding program 32. Luke Pembleton: Application of genomic tools to enable a commercial F1 hybrid ryegrass breeding program 33. Klaus Dehmer: Lack of heterotic pools in breeding material and plant genetic resources of Lolium perenne (L.) 34. Alan Stewart: Origins of diploid Dactylis from China as determined by DNA sequencing